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Mountain View, CA, United States, 09/26/2008 - Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, honored companies for demonstrating excellence, innovation, and dedication to environmental responsibility last Wednesday, September 17 in San Francisco, California.
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Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, honored companies for demonstrating excellence, innovation, and dedication to environmental responsibility last Wednesday, September 17, 2008, at its first annual Green Excellence Awards Banquet, held in San Francisco, California.
Frost & Sullivan's Green Excellence Awards are presented to companies that have excelled in green product and technology innovation and service achievements that promote sustainability. These awards recognize groundbreaking ideas and innovations that originated from a firm sense of environmental responsibility across a multitude of disciplines.
Recipient companies are committed to a continuous focus on reducing their dependency on non-renewable resources, decreasing their impact on climate change, and diminishing their overall ecological footprint.
Frost & Sullivan's team of analysts track companies across all industries, and assess their individual green initiatives. Award recipients are selected only after vigorous research is performed.
While addressing the award recipients in his welcome speech, Frost & Sullivan's Chairman David Frigstad stated, “The companies recognized by our Green Excellence Awards program offer unique and revolutionary solutions that make a positive environmental impact, and we are honored to recognize those which are dedicated to effecting change.”
Awarded companies included:
• Arbor Networks, Inc. - 2008 North American Communication Service Provider Growth Strategy Excellence of the Year Award;
• Ascension Orthopedics - 2008 North American Small Joint Replacement Industry Innovation & Advancement Award;
• Denver Water - 2008 North American Municipal Water Service Providers Green Excellence Award;
• Dyson B2B Inc. - 2008 North American Hand Dryer Product Innovation Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• Freeborders - 2008 Chinese IT Outsourcing Company of the Year Award;
• Honeywell Building Solutions - 2008 North American Energy Service Company Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• IBM - 2008 North American Business Software & Communications Applications Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• IBM - 2008 Global Point of Sale Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• Kennametal Inc. - 2008 North American Cutting Tools Product Innovation Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• NComputing, Inc. - 2008 North American Thin Client Computing Systems Technology Innovation Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• Ocarina Networks - 2008 North American Storage Optimization Technology Innovation Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• PolyOne Corporation - 2008 Colorants & Masterbatches Product Innovation Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• Premiere Global Services, Inc. - 2008 North American Web Conferencing Services Growth Excellence of the Year Award;
• PULS - 2008 Global DIN Rail Power Supplies Product Innovation Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• Stoller USA - 2008 North American Agricultural Sciences Product Innovation Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• Verizon Communications - 2008 North American Telecom Services Corporate Leadership Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation - 2008 Global Ethernet ICs Product Innovation Green Excellence of the Year Award;
• Webasto Product North America, Inc. - 2008 North American Anti-Idling Systems Technology Innovation Leadership of the Year Award.
The gala awards event was co-located with the firm's Growth, Innovation & Leadership Congress 2008: A Frost & Sullivan Global Congress on Corporate Growth, which took place September 14-17, 2008.
The Green Excellence Awards are a segment of Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards, a research program that recognizes companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.
For further information on the award banquets or recipients or for digital photos, please contact Jake Wengroff, jake.wengroff[.]frost.com.
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, partners with clients to accelerate their growth. The company's TEAM Research, Growth Consulting and Growth Team Membership empower clients to create a growth-focused culture that generates, evaluates and implements effective growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan employs over 45 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 30 offices on six continents.
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